Prof William Whitehead Watts FRS[1] HFRSE FGS FMS LLD (7 June 1860 – 30 July 1947) was a British geologist.
[2] He was born near Broseley in Shropshire, the eldest of two sons of Isaac Watts,[3] not the hymnwriter of that name but a music master, and his wife, Maria Whitehead, daughter of a farmer.
[1] He then studied Sciences at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, becoming a fellow in 1888–94; he gained first class honours in geology in 1881, graduated BA in 1882 and MA in 1885, and became ScD in 1909.
[1] In 1910 he succeeded William Johnson Sollas as President of the Geological Society of London.
He edited British Geological Photographs He married twice, firstly in 1891 to Louisa Adelaide Atchison, who died in 1894, then he married Rachel Atchison (nee Rodgers) the widowed sister-in-law of his first wife.